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Color:Many browsers have a default color of bright blue to indicate links and purple to display those links that have been visited. (These blue and purple underlined words in this text are not real links, only dummies for illustration.) Viewers can also set their own preferences for colors. The viewer's preference will always override the web designer's choice. However, you can set colors when you do the first <body> tag. Before you close the tag, you add directions to select the color of the page background, text, links, active links and visited links. For example, if you "View>Page Source" on the class pages, the body section begins with a tag that reads: <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#CC3300" vlink="#CC0000" > This replaces a simple <body> tag to begin the section. The "bgcolor" sets the background color to white since the default on many computers is gray. The default for text is black, so I have not detailed that. The "link" color is selected for red and the "vlink" (for "visited link") changes to a different shade of red or orange. Be careful when choosing colors that you have good contrast with the page background. You will want to check the Project Cool color chart to make sure you have readable contrast. Be careful, too, that links contrast with other text colors. Most browsers will underline the link. However, some browsers only show the link color with no underline. In the navigation bar on top, for example, I originally had the word "Unit" in bright red to match the color of the links, thinking that because it was not underlined it would be clear "Topic" was not a link like "Schedule" or the numbers that followed. However, when I checked the page in an Opera browser that does not underline links, I realized people might click on the word "Unit" expecting it to link like the others. Continue to "Organizing Your Links" >> Other comment notes for this unit: |
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